Indie Wiki Buddy guide

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Overview

Indie Wiki Buddy provides a suite of features to help you discover independent wikis and improve your general wiki reading experience.

When you visit a wiki on a large, corporate-run wiki host, this extension can notify or automatically redirect you to quality independent wikis when they're available. Search results in Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Brave Search, Ecosia, and Startpage can also be filtered, replacing non-independent wikis with links to independent counterpart (or hiding them completely).

We currently redirect from Fandom and Fextralife wikis to independent counterparts.

Indie Wiki Buddy also supports BreezeWiki, a separate service that renders Fandom wikis without ads or bloat. This helps give you a more enjoyable reading experience when an independent wiki isn't available.

All these features can be toggled on or off, and you can set your preferences per-wiki as well. You're in full control!

Global settings help

There are several global settings:

• 🔋 Extension is on/off
  Enable/disable all Indie Wiki Buddy functionality at the click of a button.


• 🔔 Desktop notifications when redirected to an indie wiki or BreezeWiki
  When this option is enabled, you will receive a desktop notification whenever you are automatically redirected to either an indie wiki or BreezeWiki. This is on by default.
  
  If you aren't getting notifications when this is enabled, check your operating system's notification settings to ensure that your browser is allowed to send notifications.


• 🌐 Redirect non-English Fandom/Fextralife wikis to independent English wikis when no same-language wiki exists
  By default, Indie Wiki Buddy will keep users within the same language (e.g. only redirecting Spanish Fandom wikis to Spanish indie wikis). However, multilingual speakers may want to also use the many independent English wikis that are available. Enabling this option will redirect from non-English Fandom/Fextralife wikis to independent English wikis when one isn't available in the same language.


• 📁 Open changelog when Indie Wiki Buddy is updated
  Only accessible on full settings page
  By default, when Indie Wiki Buddy is updated, the changelog will be opened in a new tab. Unchecking this option will disable opening the changelog.


• 🌬️ Use BreezeWiki alternative frontend on Fandom
  This option will render Fandom wikis through BreezeWiki, an external service that removes clutter, simplifies the page, and removes ads. Occasionally, BreezeWiki or one of its mirrors may go down; when this happens, you can simply switch to another working instance. This is off by default.

Individual wiki settings help

In the individual settings section of the settings page, you can configure your settings per-wiki. You can refer to the legend or hover over the icons to learn what each column controls.

The first set of radio buttons controls what happens when you visit the listed non-indie wikis.

• Disable: You will be neither notified of nor redirected to the independent counterpart. You will still be directed to BreezeWiki if it is turned on.
• Redirect: Be automatically redirected to the independent counterpart.
• Alert: Have a display banner at the top notifying you that an independent wiki is available. This will appear on both Fandom and BreezeWiki pages.

The second set of radio buttons controls what happens to the non-indie wiki on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines.

• Disable: Search engine results are not affected.
• Hide: Results are hidden in search engines. A banner will be shown near the top of the page to inform you, and allow you to re-reveal the hidden results.
• Replace: The original non-indie result is disabled, and a button is injected above to take you to the indepedent wiki.

In the table header, clicking on the icons will apply that setting to all wikis in the table. In the second row, the stars represent the default settings for wikis that are added in future updates. By default, all wikis will be set to alert, with search engine replacement enabled.

Have questions or feedback?

If you're stuck or have questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch via the contact details at the bottom of Indie Wiki Buddy website.

Suggestions for improvements to the extension are also welcome!